Where is the "like" button?
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Hi,
I’m using the Hemingway Rewritten theme. I can’t find the like button, and I want people to be able to “like” my posts. Is it not in this theme? I didn’t find it under widgets.
Thanks,
SkyeThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Under Settings/Sharing it says that it’s turned on for all posts, but I can’t find it on my blog. ???
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Click any post title please and look at the end of the post above the comment box. Example: http://theheartofthematter-dailyreminders.org/2014/04/03/thought-as-an-escape/
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Okay, I see, in this particular theme (Hemingway Rewritten–for my blog bloodbondthebook.wordpress.com, not heart of the matter) a reader has to click on comment before the like button comes up.
May have to change themes. Don’t care for that. Thanks, this is resolved.
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We like to think the best of people and that means we presume that visitors read the entire post to the very end before they decide whether or not to click the like button. If we don’t assume that and place the like button in any location where it can be used without reading the full post, then the “like”, which has negligible value in any event, would have absolutely no value at all.
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Good point, Timethief.
Nonetheless, I use the like button after I have completely read a post, and when I do not have the time to comment. It’s nice if it is obvious. I would never have thought to look under “comment.”
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I also use the like button appropriately but the like buttons spammers sure as heck don’t and we cannot remove their “likes” from our blogs.
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Timethief, I had no idea there were like button spammers. Why would somebody do that? Guess that’s one of those unanswerable questions.
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No it’s answerable. it’s all about money $ and the lowlife who click like button on our blogs to get our followers to click into their sites. WordPress.com and Gravatar are together forever. http://blog.gravatar.com/2013/04/03/gravatar-and-wordpress-com-together-forever/ Gravatar provides universal gravatars that are posted across sites. Those who have Gravatar accounts can click like buttons on our blogs and they can follow our blogs and they do. We WordPress.com blogger have no control over who follows our blogs and no ability to remove fake likes and/or fake followers. We cannot prevent reblog or like buttons from appearing in the Reader. As raincoaster said this morning:
I for one have had enough of being “followed” by “people” like Best Tampon Coupon Deals.
I’d like to manage my followers list by keeping it up to date so I can have some confidence in the numbers of followers reflected in my site stats.
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/04/09/wordpress-com-follower-management/ -
Oh, my, I didn’t realize. I guess that my topic, in my first blog that I’ve had for pushing three years, the topic is arcane enough that I didn’t attract that kind of attention.
Now that I have a blog about the writing process, that could change. Thanks for increasing my awareness. I’ll go checkout the site above: on follower management.
Skye
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